Flagg the Wanderer
09-29-2004, 12:39 PM
Some are silly, some are stereotypes, some are sound...take what you like from it:
1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself...
- Mark Twain
2) I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the
handle.
- Winston Churchill
3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
- G. Gordon Liddy
5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- James Bovard
6) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
- Douglas Casey
7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- PJ O'Rourke
8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
- Frederic Bastiat
9) Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Regan
10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
- PJ O'Rourke
12) If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a
conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
- Joseph Sobran
13) In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
- Voltaire
14) Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
- Pericles
15) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
- Mark Twain
16) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it.
- Unknown
17) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Regan
18) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
19) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
- Mark Twain
20) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- Herbert Spencer
21) There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress.
- Mark Twain
22) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
- Edward Langley
23) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
- Thomas Jefferson
1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself...
- Mark Twain
2) I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the
handle.
- Winston Churchill
3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
- G. Gordon Liddy
5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- James Bovard
6) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
- Douglas Casey
7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- PJ O'Rourke
8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
- Frederic Bastiat
9) Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Regan
10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
- PJ O'Rourke
12) If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a
conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
- Joseph Sobran
13) In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
- Voltaire
14) Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
- Pericles
15) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
- Mark Twain
16) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it.
- Unknown
17) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Regan
18) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
19) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
- Mark Twain
20) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- Herbert Spencer
21) There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress.
- Mark Twain
22) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
- Edward Langley
23) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
- Thomas Jefferson